{"id":375626,"date":"2018-08-31T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-plague-on-both-their-houses\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T20:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:09:48","slug":"a-plague-on-both-their-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-plague-on-both-their-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plague on Both Their Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104937\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104937\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/306933905_843630cd6d_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/306933905_843630cd6d_b.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/306933905_843630cd6d_b-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/306933905_843630cd6d_b-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source pxl | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump is a miscreant, worse than any president in modern times.\u00a0 Nevertheless, he is sometimes more right than Democrats and their media flacks.\u00a0His express views on the multi-lateral institutions that regulate global trade in capitalism\u2019s current neoliberal phase are an obvious example.\u00a0 Trump thinks, or says that he thinks, that American workers have been getting a raw deal.\u00a0 He is right.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements in place are good for global capital and therefore for American corporate moguls and Wall Street financiers, but not for workers in the United States or anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few comparatively progressive Democrats who do want to make existing arrangements less harmful to workers and the environment.\u00a0 But even they don\u2019t want to change anything fundamental.\u00a0 Mainstream Democrats support the neoliberal status quo more or less as is.<\/p>\n<p>The American labor movement has opposed NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, ever since its inception in 1994.\u00a0The Clinton administration could have cared less.\u00a0 Neither could its successors, both Democratic and Republican. Democrats rely on organized labor for money, campaign workers, and votes, offering only malign neglect in return.\u00a0 The GOP\u2019s hostility is more overt; Republicans don\u2019t even pretend to care.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Bernie Sanders opposed both NAFTA and the TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership.\u00a0 Challenged from her left, even Hillary Clinton said that she would renegotiate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/31\/a-plague-on-both-their-houses\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source pxl | CC BY 2.0 Donald Trump is a miscreant, worse than any president in modern times.\u00a0 Nevertheless, he is sometimes more right than Democrats and their media flacks.\u00a0His express views on the multi-lateral institutions that regulate global trade in capitalism\u2019s current neoliberal phase are an obvious example.\u00a0 Trump thinks, or says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}